Imported malaria definition and minimum data for surveillance.

ABSTRACT: The mobility of malaria-infected individuals poses challenges to elimination campaigns by way of spreading parasite drug resistance, straining country-to-country collaboration, and making routine data collection difficult, especially in resource-poor settings. Nevertheless, no concerted effort has been made to develop a common framework to define the spatial and temporal components of an imported malaria case and recommend the minimum data needed to identify it. We conducted a scoping review of imported malaria literature from 2010 to 2020 which showed that definitions vary widely, and local capabilities of detecting importation are often restricted in low-income countries. Following this, we propose a common definition for imported malaria and the minimum data required to identify a case,

SUBMITTER: Arisco NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9605982 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature